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As You Like It, III. ii

hour would detect the lazy foot of Time as well

as a clock.

Orl. And why not the swift foot of Time?

had not that been as proper?

Ros. By no means, sir. Time travels in

divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you

who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal,

who Time gallops withal, and who he stands

still withal.

Orl. I prithee, who doth he trot withal?

Ros. Marry, he trots hard with a young maid

between the contract of her marriage and the

day it is solemnized; if the interim be but a

se'nnight, Time's pace is so hard that it seems

the length of seven year.

Orl. Who ambles Time withal?

Ros. With a priest that lacks Latin, and a

rich man that hath not the gout; for the one

sleeps easily because he cannot study, and the

other lives merrily because he feels no pain;

the one lacking the burden of lean and waste-

ful learning, the other knowing no burden

of heavy tedious penury. These Time ambles

withal.

Orl. Who doth he gallop withal?

Ros. With a thief to the gallows; for though

he go as softly as foot can fall he thinks himself

too soon there.

Orl. Who stays it still withal?

Ros. With lawyers in the vacation; for they

sleep between term and term, and then they per-

ceive not how Time moves.

Orl. Where dwell you, pretty youth?

 334 hard: uneasily

337 se'nnight: seven-night, week

344 wasteful: consuming

354 term: period of court sessions 